Last Updated May 2025
There are optional types of content, such as Plugins and Widgets, that can display additional content or provide additional functionality for your site. Contact the COFA Web team to begin using these features.
- Social Media
- AddToAny plugin
- Footer Icons – by request, the Web Team can also add social media icons to the bottom of your website linking to your Facebook page, Youtube channel, or your Twitter account. Social Media Icons displayed in the footer area of a WordPress site.
- Tables – The TablePress Plugin allows you to easily build data tables on your WordPress site. Please see the accessibility instructions on this page before publishing your table. If you need the TablePress Plugin activated on your site contact cofawebmaster@austin.utexas.edu.
- Google Analytics for WordPress – Enabled by the COFA Web team on the day your website goes live. To access analytic and visitor data about your site, please send a Gmail address to the COFA Web team. Discover the power of analytics data and start making data based decisions today.
- Flickr Gallery – Available upon request, this feature allows you to easily insert Flickr galleries on your site. Learn more by viewing our instructions for adding media from external services. Please be aware that there are accessibility issues related to Flickr and the COFA web team needs to be contacted to implement this feature.
- Slideshow Carousel plugins
- Genesis Responsive Slider -This widget gives you the option to create a slideshow from featured posts & pages. It can be used in conjunction with the Homepage Feature Widget to create a hero image featured story area.
- Royal Slider – Is the main image or video slideshow carousel which can be embedded in widgets and as page content. Each separate slider requires prior setup by Fine Arts web team staff, contact us through the cofawebmaster@austin.utexas.edu email address to start this process.
- “Teams” is a plugin that allow you to create rows and columns in a responsive grid layout. The typical use of the plugin is for creating a directory of people but it can be used creatively to solve many other layout needs.
- Search – Enabled by the COFA Web team. The search form for your site is required on all sites.
- Homepage Feature– A WordPress for Texas theme only widget which adds a homepage only hero display, see demo here.
- Tag Cloud – Adds your most used Tags from blog or news items in a clickable cloud format.
- Text – Allows you to create a custom area to displays any text or HTML. Recommended for site-wide promotions and featured content. Examples can be found in the right sidebar of this page:
- details of our Open Office Hours
- the graphic link to the Web Instruction site
- the Contact Us text and email link.
- HTML – New option better suited to added custom HTML to your sidebar.
- RSS – Display content from an RSS feed, usually from a different website.
- Recent Comments – Add a list of links to the most recent comments on your site. You must have comments enabled.
- Pages – Add a list of links to your site’s Pages.
- Ways to Display your News or Posts in the Sidebar
- Archives – Add a list of links to each month of your blog or news items.
- Calendar – Add a clickable calendar to link to your blog and news items.
- Categories – Add a clickable list or drop-down menu of the Categories of your news or post pages.
- Recent Posts – Add a list of links to the most recent blog or news items on your site.
- Meta – Add a list of links to log in or out, administer the site, RSS feeds, and WordPress links.
